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Blogs from the Foyer Federation team and our friends. Reflections on our work, the Foyer approach, working with young people and other interesting things. To discuss contributing to this blog please email pip@foyer.net

Is it time to rethink our approach to services for young people? Foyer Federation chief executive Jane Slowey argues that focusing on talents and aspirations can help vulnerable youngsters make the transition to independent adulthood. Young…

By allowing young people to set their own aims and aspirations we are exploring a new way of supporting them and making an investment in their future. One of the Foyers currently trialling the Talent Bonds recently…

The views and opinions represented in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Foyer Federation, our members or any of our partner organisations. Loserville aims to raise awareness…

The current policy landscape for the young people the Foyer Federation works with Using my new-found skills in piktochart that I discovered at my social media surgery session today (thanks Steph), I have made this infographic…

Yesterday the Foyer Federation contingent set off to celebrate the talents of young people involved in pioneering SMMT employability project with Toyota, Ford & Unipart at a lunch hosted by funders SMMT. There was a great…

2012 has been a challenging policy landscape for Foyers, throughout the year we’ve continued to inform our members of important policy changes, challenges and opportunities as well as listening to your views and lobbying policy makers…

Young people have clearly been identified as an ‘easy target’ for the next round of welfare cuts and phrases like the “something for nothing’ youth culture” make easy headlines. But labelling young people as feckless is…